Deuteronomy 24:5

American King James Version (1999)

When a man has taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he has taken.

Cross References

Genesis 2:24

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall join to his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

Proverbs 5:18

Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of your youth.

Ecclesiastes 9:9

Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of the life of your vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all the days of your vanity: for that is your portion in this life, and in your labor which you take under the sun.

Luke 14:20

And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.

1 Corinthians 7:29

But this I say, brothers, the time is short: it remains, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;

Deuteronomy 20:7

And what man is there that has betrothed a wife, and has not taken her? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.

Deuteronomy 24:6

No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he takes a man's life to pledge.